Welcome to my personal webpage!
I am Mario Cannella, a PhD student in Economics at Northwestern University.
My research interests are in economic history, political economy, and applied microeconomics.
You can find my CV here.
Working Papers
"The Political Legacy of Nazi Annexation", with Alexey Makarin and Ricardo Piqué
"Board composition and performance of State-Owned Enterprises: Quasi-experimental evidence", with Audinga Baltrunaite, Sauro Mocetti, and Giacomo Roma
Also Bank of Italy working paper no. 1328, CEPR Discussion Paper no. 16056
Covered by La Repubblica
Work in Progress
"The long-term consequences of Distance Education: Evidence from the first U.S. Correspondence Program", awarded the "Exploratory Travel and Data Grant" by the Economic History Association
"Vote for Hollywood: the Effects of US Indirect Propaganda on Italian Elections", with Matteo Magnaricotte